Kinsey : Gall Wasp Genus Cynips 
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anterior parallel and lateral lines rather broad but obscure; median 
groove quite evident posteriorly, distinctly longer than broad, quite 
rugose, with a more or less distinct median ridge; foveal groove broad, 
entirely rugose at bottom; abdomen entirely black, quite elongate, the 
second segment rather tongue-shaped, legs rufous and rufo-brown; 
wings long, about 1.30 times the body length; the areolet of moderate 
size or larger; cloud on the first abscissa of the radius small; tip of the 
radius sharply bent toward the tip of the wing; large but not very 
robust insects 2.8 to 4.0 mm. in length. Figure 396. 
GALL. — Typical for the species, averaging about 6.0 mm. in diam- 
eter, larger than any other variety of the species; well rounded (occur- 
ring singly?) ; on the leaves of Quercus alba. 
FIG. 56. SOUTHERN VARIETY OF C. MELLEA ON Q. ALBA 
Possible extension of known range shown by shading. 
RANGE. — Indiana: Nashville (Kinsey coll.). 
Tennessee: Oakdale (Kinsey coll.). 
North Carolina: Hendersonville (Kinsey coll.). 
South Carolina: Hardeeville (hybrid, Kinsey coll.). Travellers 
Rest (galls, Kinsey coll.) . 
Georgia: Madison (types, Kinsey coll.). Hartwell (Kinsey coll.). 
Florida: Campbellton (hybrids, Kinsey coll.) . 
Probably confined to Q. alba, thruout central Georgia and Alabama, 
in the Tennessee River Valley in Tennessee, in other states in areas 
immediately adjacent to this area, and thru the Ohio River Valley into 
southern Indiana. Figure 56. 
TYPES. — 7 females and 35 galls. Holotype and paratype females 
in the Kinsey collection. Paratype galls in the American Museum of 
Natural History, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the U.S. 
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